SciFi Art Now is a book collecting some of the best in contemporary science fiction art by a wide range of creators. The book, edited by John Freeman, includes an introduction by the legendary Chris Foss and is on sale now in all good bookshops.

Monday, 30 August 2010

The format of SciFi Art Now - out this October - is such that it promotes the art of the creators, but there's not much room to tell you more about them and their work. We're publishing interviews with creators here to redress the balance.

Gary Hall (aka Nemons) has worked in the games industry as a commercial artist for over 10 years creating characters, concepts, logos, user interfaces and more for companies such as Sony, EA, Microsoft, SEGA and Activision.

Now he's trying to establish himself in his own right in his own way, more of which can be seen on his official web site...

SciFi Art Now: What tools do you mainly use to create your art?

Gary Hall: Pencil, paper, scanner and my iMac!

SciFi Art Now: Why?

Astro Zombies by Gary Hall

Gary: I like the crispness I can achieve by using a computer and it let's me adapt my work for different media

SciFi Art Now: What inspired you to become an artist?

Gary: Reading Asterix, TinTin and 2000AD and watching Disney films and other animations, I used to spend endless hours copying my favourite characters and covers.

SciFi Art Now: What was the most useful piece of advice you were given when you began learning your craft?

SciFi Art Now: What is the appeal to you of science fiction as an inspiration for some of your work?

Gary: I love retro sci-fi and b-movie horror films, the monsters, heroes and girls are just fantastic - the 1950's and 60's was the golden age of these type of films and their posters really inspire me. Men were real heroes, women were fainting femme fatales and one-eyed martian killer cyborgs were one-eyed martian killer cyborgs!

SciFi Art Now: Do you have a favourite piece of work or project you have worked on?

Gary: I'm never satisfied with anything I do! I guess it's a built in survival system to make me create more work :)

SciFi Art Now: In your career, have you had any bizarre experiences while creating your art?

Gary: I have so many bizarre experiences on a daily basis it's nice that they don't happen when I'm drawing.

SciFi Art Now: What most frustrates you about being an artist?

Gary: that the world and his dog are expert art critics and never let a moment go by to tell you "what you've done wrong" or "what they would have done"

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About Sci-Fi Art Now

Sci-Fi Art Now is a book collecting some of the best in contemporary science fiction art by a wide range of creators. The book, edited by John Freeman, includes an introduction by the legendary Chris Foss, published in the UK by ILEX and in the US by Harper Collins.

A full list of artists featured, together with links to their web sites, appears below.

Chris Foss

Chris Foss provides the introduction for Sci-Fi Art Now, an artist who has had an immense impact on our collective vision of the future down the years, as cover artist for many SF books written by authors such as Harry Harrison, Philip K Dick, Isaac Asimov and E.E. 'Doc' Smith'; and his design work for films such as Alien and Superman.